The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library
Clark-Yudkin Research Fellowships
The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library have established the Clark-Yudkin Research Fellowship to promote awareness and use of the resources available in the Clark Special Collections Branch of the Air Force Academy's McDermott Library.
Awarded annually, Clark-Yudkin fellowships assist visiting researchers with travel and living expenses while working with the Academy library's scholarly collections. Grants range from $1000 to $15,000. The amount of a given grant will be determined by the relevance of the proposed research to the library's holdings and the merits and significance of the project. Applications are invited from senior and early career scholars, recent PhDs, and advanced graduate students. Recipients are expected to complete their fellowship research within one year from the date of the award.
For detailed descriptions of the holdings in the Clark Special Collections Branch, go to the Air Force Academy Library home page: http://www.usafa.edu/df/dflib and then open the link to "Special Collections."
Additional information and an online application are available at The Friends home page: www.friends.usafalibrary.com , open the link to "Research Fellowship” and then scroll down to “Application and Overview.” Applications and related materials are due no later than April 1, 2016. Applicants will be notified of The Friends' decision in early May.
Questions concerning the Clark-Yudkin Research Fellowship may be submitted via email to friends@usafalibrary.com .
The Friends are pleased to announce the names of the 2012 through 2015 Clark-Yudkin research fellows:
2015
Dr. Susan Branson
Professor of History, Syracuse University
Project title: “Flights of Fancy: Air Ballooning and the American Imagination”
CDR Robert E. Poling, III, USN
PhD Candidate, Kings College, London University
Project title: Air-Sea Battle, An Old Concept Made New: US Navy and Army Air Forces and Air-Sea Battle in the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942-1943”
Colonel Lawrence Spinetta, USAF
Commander, 69 Reconnaissance Group, Grand Forks AFB, ND
Project title: Biography of General Thomas D. White, USAF
2014
Mr. Dan Gashler
PhD Candidate, State University of New York at Binghamton
Project title: “Axis or Allies? Rescuing Airmen Downed Over Yugoslavia, 1943-1945”
Lt Colonel Joel E. Higley, USAF
PhD Candidate: The Ohio State University
Project title: “Blue Torch:” Lawrence Kuter and the Making of an Independent Air Force”
2013
Mr. Patrick J. Charles
352d Special Operations Group
RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom
Project title: “The Papers of Colonel Cortez Enloe and the Origins of the Air Commandos”
Dr. Catherine L. Newell
University of Miami
Project title: “The Wheels of Titan: Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier”
Dr. Sharon D. Raynor
Johnson C. Smith University
Project title: “First of the First: Oral History of African-American Graduates and Officers of the US Air Force Academy”
2012
Dr. Samuel Z. Baker
Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Southern University
Project title: “Forward Progress: Desegregating College Football, 1945-1975”
Ms. Amelia Underwood
MA Candidate, Department of History, James Madison University
Project title: Living on the Outside: An Analysis of the Integration of Women at the United States Air Force Academy, 1976-1986”
Peggy Litwhiler, Chairperson, Clark-Yudkin Fellowship